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...What you fear will not go away it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

William Stafford

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William Stafford
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: January 17
Died: 1993
Died: August 28
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Poet
Writer
Hutchinson
Kansas
Take
World
Bless
Fear
Away
Keep
Live

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A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself.
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And the things you know before you hear them these are you and the reason you are in the world.
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Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.
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Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.
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You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.
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When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.
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Please think about this as you go on. Breathe on the world. Hold out your hands to it. When morning and evenings roll along, watch how they open and close, how they invite you to the long party that your life is.
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Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: Why did other people stop?
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When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere.
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